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TIL that meth is called crank because the motorcycle gangs that trafficked it use to hide it in the crank case of their motorcycles.

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dD8kj TIL that women were encouraged to hand men who hadn’t enlisted to fight in WW1 white feathers, as a symbol of cowardice.
KY7w TIL that until 2008 Walmart de Mexico was paying its employees with vouchers only redeemable at Walmart.
78oaX TIL Mitch Hedberg was found dead (overdose) in his hotel room March 30th 2005, but was announced on April 1st (monday), causing some fans to believe it was an april fools joke.
kO4WE TIL of Kevin Peter Hall, the actor who played the Predator (1987), who was in a near fatal car accident in 1990. While receiving a blood transfusion at the hospital, he contracted AIDS and died less than a year later.
R7VPQ TIL that British comedian Tony Hawks became so frustrated with being mistaken for pro skateboarder Tony Hawk that he has published a book called "Tony Hawk's The A to Z of Skateboarding" that contains nothing about skateboarding.